Queensland arrowroot (Cana edulis) provides food for us, food for chickens, pigs, cattle and goats, mulch and/or compost material, and shelter for other plants. It’s super easy to grow and to harvest and it self-propagates to a certain extent but is not weedy or invasive. And I think it looks beautiful. What more could a polyculture food grower ask?
Everything Written on A Real Green Life in 2020

Everything Written on ARealGreenLife in 2020
This post lists everything I wrote in 2020, organized by category. Thanks so much for reading along. I'll be back with more in 2021!
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Posted under "Sustainable Living" in 2020
On "Growing Food and Fodder"
Posted under "Thinking Differently" in 2020
On "Growing Up, for Adults"
There Is Only One Place To Begin
Are You Acting on Life or is Life Acting on You?
Personal Responsibility = Personal Power
Is It Important, or Merely Urgent?
Are You Going After Your Goals the Hard Way or the Easy Way?
Overcome Distractions With These 2 Simple Strategies
On Making the Least Change for the Greatest Effect
Why Your Most Important Responsibility is Taking Care of You
Growing Food and Fodder
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Real Food and Nutrition
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Reconnecting
Logical, rational thinking understandably sees things as separate. ‘I am me; everything else is something “other” than me.’ There is another way to see things. Through a lens of interbeing, I am still me, but now I recognize that I’m closely related to everything that the mindset of separation calls “other.”
The logical mind wants to muscle its way to the results we want; when muscle is inadequate to the task, we think we’ve failed and we’re out of options.
The heart, on the other hand, is not afraid to invoke the results we want by the quality of our attention and the power of our desire to give what we don’t physically have to give.
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Growing Up, for Adults
The 2020 posts in this category make up a 10-part Series called "When Nothing You Can Do Makes a Difference," which is also available as a free download. Learn more about the Series and download it here, or read it post by post below.
(1st in a Series) Everything we need to create a more just, alive, abundant and beautiful world exists today. Why aren’t we using it?
(2nd in a Series) Here is a way of looking at even the really big challenges that breaks them down to a manageable size.
(3rd in a Series) How to focus your energy where you can be most effective, rather than wasting it on things that you cannot make any difference to.
(4th in a Series) How your taking care of your “response-ability”—your ability to choose your own responses—increases your personal power and expands your influence.
(5th in a Series) By prioritizing what is important over what is urgent, you can live a more spacious, meaningful, satisfying life.
(6th in a Series) The idea that you need motivation and will power to reach your goals is part of a story that says if we use enough of the right kind of force, we’ll get to the goal. There is an easier way.
(7th in a Series) There are ways to set up your distractions on purpose so that they still lead you in the right direction.
(8th in a Series) In our make-it-happen culture, making a difference to anything means grunting and sweating, burning the candle at both ends, making herculean efforts. It’s an that approach keeps us in battle mode and sustains drama and conflict.
(9th in a Series) As within, so without. How we care for our innermost selves, each other, and our planet, are all linked. As urgent as it may seem to address those issues “out there,” it’s essential to begin “in here.”
(10th in a Series) When you do the deep personal work necessary to give up conflict (internal and external), this invisible choice wields power out of all proportion to its humble appearance.
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